VIEW MOREVintage brass desk clock table clock Weimar GDR East German Mid ...
Image by etsy.com
Peirce Mansion volunteers finish latest phase of restoration
Friends of the Peirce Mansion Restoration Committee have volunteered thousands of hours and spent thousands of dollars raised through antique book sales and special event rentals to restore the 1893 Victorian-Era home to its former glory. Old books ...
Collectors want discontinued technology
Cowles Syndicate Inc. This strange brass object is an early stock ticker tape, a very unusual collectible that can be displayed like a piece of sculpture. It auctioned for Collectors are searching for antique and vintage items related to ...
Ticker tape machine brings more than $2K
Collectors are searching for antique and vintage items related to discontinued technology -— old computers, transistor radios, early television sets, computer games and even old typewriters, fans and ticker tape machines. A recent Hand-hammered ...
Ken Dixon: An eagle's glorious 7-story flight
You don't have to hit me over the head with an antique eagle to find a metaphor, but it was close. It would have been such a fitting way to go: walking out of the Capitol on the windiest day in years and getting conked on the head by a brass raptor ...
The 2015 Winter Antiques Show
WAS was. The New York Winter Antiques Show, held January 23-February 1, was rebranded THE WAS. The golden phoenix, its logo for 60 years, was consumed into the gold letters “WAS” incorporating the word “THE” and a white snowflake, all on a red ...
Restoring Historic Lobbies in Luxury Buildings
Honed Calacatta Tucci marble floors in a herringbone pattern with black stone accents nod to the original travertine floors in the old section, where bronze figures are inset into the floors. In the new lobby, the reception desk will have a bronze ...
Who Doesn't Need a Kennedy Ashtray?
I grew up going to auctions with my mother, an antiques dealer, so the process wasn't unfamiliar. Granted, those sales were held in a barn in central Pennsylvania, but the same principles would surely apply. And how much could a side table or a ...
